I took the sample code from https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/plugins\/security\/nonces\/ and created a plugin using but it causes wordpress to crash with the following message:<\/p>\n
atal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function wp_get_current_user() in C:\\dev\\xampp\\htdocs\\wpSandBox\\wp-includes\\capabilities.php:652 Stack trace: #0 C:\\dev\\xampp\\htdocs\\wpSandBox\\wp-content\\plugins\\marys_sandbox.php(65): current_user_can(‘edit_others_pos…’) #1 C:\\dev\\xampp\\htdocs\\wpSandBox\\wp-settings.php(360): include_once(‘C:\\\\dev\\\\xampp\\\\ht…’) #2 C:\\dev\\xampp\\htdocs\\wpSandBox\\wp-config.php(90): require_once(‘C:\\\\dev\\\\xampp\\\\ht…’) #3 C:\\dev\\xampp\\htdocs\\wpSandBox\\wp-load.php(37): require_once(‘C:\\\\dev\\\\xampp\\\\ht…’) #4 C:\\dev\\xampp\\htdocs\\wpSandBox\\wp-admin\\admin.php(34): require_once(‘C:\\\\dev\\\\xampp\\\\ht…’) #5 C:\\dev\\xampp\\htdocs\\wpSandBox\\wp-admin\\plugins.php(10): require_once(‘C:\\\\dev\\\\xampp\\\\ht…’) #6 {main} thrown in C:\\dev\\xampp\\htdocs\\wpSandBox\\wp-includes\\capabilities.php on line 652<\/p>\n
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the line causing the error is if (current_user_can(‘edit_others_posts’))
\nif i remove the if statement it works fine.<\/p>\n
sorry i cannot share access to the site as it is on a local installation which i did yesterday so very latest release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-12491705","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-current_user_can","topic-tag-nonces"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/12491705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/12491705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12491705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}